Adjustable magazine-binder.



'PATENTED JAN". 7; 1908.

I. A. OLSON; ADJUSTABLE MAGAZINE BINDER.

APPLICATION FILED..APB- 4, 1907.

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. OLSON, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GUSTAF OLSON ,ONE-EIGHTH TO ETTA OLSON, AND ONE-EIGHTH TO PERRY D. SHERWIN.

No. avaggt' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. 'J an. 7, 1908.

Application filed April 4' 1907. Serial No. 366.360.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JOHN A. OLSON, a citizen.of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, inthe count of Hennepin andState Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable'Maga-' zine- Binders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertainsto make and use the same.

I the like.

To the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accomanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like, parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a view partly in plan and aftly in horizontal section, with some arts broken away, showing my detachable inder applied to several magazines or the like. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation, showing the detachable binder, lookin at the inner face thereof, some parts being roken away; Fig. 3 is a vertica section taken approximately on the line a a of Fig.1. Fig. 4 is a view in edge elevation,

" "showing the upper end portion of the sois a.'view in edge elevation, showing called binding sheath of the device. Figfh 5 t e lower end portion of the binding sheath.

Fig. 6 is a new in elevation, showing the upper lock plate of the deviceremoved from working position. Fig. 7 is a view in elevation, showing the lower lock plate of the device removed from working position; and

- Fig. 8 is a'view correspondin to Fig. 2', but

illustrating a somewhat mo ified construction of the device.

Refer!" first to the construction illustrated in lgs. 1 to 5 inclusive, the numeral '1 indicates the cover of the detachable binder, to the flexible intermediate portion of which is secured a flat but hollow thin metal sheath 2 that extends approximately from. top to bottom thereof. As shown in Fig. 2, this sheath 2 is attached to the cover 1 by'straps 3, but it will, of course, be understood that it may be'thus secured by any suitable means.

At one edge of its upper end, the sheath 2 is provided with aflongitudinally extended entrance slot 4, and at the opposite edge of its lower end, it is' provided with a similar admission slot 5. -/A so-called lock plate 6 is adaptedto be inserted into the upper end of the sheath 2, and a similar lock plate 7 is adapted to be inserted into the lower end of the said sheath. The lock plate 6 is provided with marginal flanges 8, 9 and 10.. The'flange 10.]imitsthe downward or inward movement of the lock plate 6 andholds the flange S s aced from the end of said sheath while the ange 9 serves to close the entrance slot 4 when the said plate-6 is in working position, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

The lower lock plate 7 is provided with marginal flanges 11, 12 and 13. The short flange 13 limits the upper or inward moveplate 7 and holds the flange e lower end of the sheath 2 are adapted to be held between the leaves ofthe cover 1 by the rods 14, which rodsare placed between the leaves thereof close to the back orfolded edgesthereofi with the ends 15 of the said rods projecting rearward thereof and engaged w1th the end of the sheath 2. When the lock plates 6 and 7 are applied as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the entrance slots 4 and 5 of the sheath are closed and the ends of the rods are interlocked with the sheath, but are, nevertheless, capable of lateral movements transversely of the sheath, so as to permit the articles 2 to assume their proper relative of the cover.

applied to the sheath or to be removed there from when the look 'plates 6 are removed from the sheath by lateral movements of the fingers or ends 15 of the said rods through the entrance slots 4 and 5. Intact, oneend or finger of a rod may be inserted endwise into the sheath, and the other end thereof moved laterally through one or the other oi. the en trance slots 4 or 5. lit is desirable to place the said slots 4 and at opposite sides of the sheath so that a rod containing late number of the magazine may be applied to the right hand of the sheath, as viewed in 2 by first inserting its lower end into the end of the sheath and then moving the upper end thereof laterally through the slot 42; while the rod which holds. the magazine of the oldest date may be removed from the left hand side of the sheath by, moving its lower end 15 laterally outwardthrough the slot 5 and then moving the upper end of the said rod endwise from said sheath. This manipulation, of course, adapts the device for the substitution of any other articles which happen to beapplied to the rods.

Fig. 8 illustrates a simple form of the device which is especially adapted to bold but one rod 14. In this modified construction,

the sheath 2 is narrower than the sheath 2,

and in its lower end is shown as formed with a notch 2". A lock plate 6 which, as shown, is provided with a downturned bifurcated outerend '6. is adapted to be inserted into the upper end of the sheath 2 The sheath 2*, at one side of its upper end, is provided with an entrance slot 2 through which the hooked. upper end of the rod 14 may be passed laterally when the lock plate 6* is removed and the lower hooked end of said rod l P-is engaged in the notch 2 in the lower end of the sheath. The device illustrated in Fig. 8 is especially adapted for use to secure a book such as a telephone book, for instance, to a suitable cover. The cover, however, is

not shown in Fig. 8, but it will be understood that the sheath 2* may be applied to the cover in the manner illustratedin Figs, 1 and 2 or by any other suitable means.

The device above described is of very small cost and has been found highly eilicient for the purposes had in view.

What I claim is:

1. in a device of the kind described, the combination with a sheath having open ends,

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of one or more coupling rods having hooked ends of said sheath and serving to hold the said rod or rods interlocked with-said sheath, substantially as described.

in a device of the described, the comhination with a sheath having open ends, and a longitudinally extended entrance slot, of one or more rods having hooked ends engageable with the ends of said sheath, and a lock' late insertible into one end of said sheath and arranged to close the longitudinal entrance slot thereof, substantially as described.

3. In a device of the kind described, the combination with a sheath having open ends, and entrance slots extending longitudinally from the two ends thereof but at the opposite edges of said sheath, and a multiplicity of rods having hooked ends engageable with the ends of said sheath and adapted to be passed laterally. through the entrance slots thereof, and lock devices insertible into the ends of said sheath and arranged to close the longitudinal entrance slots thereof and thereby hold the rods interlocked with said sheath with ireedoin for lateral adjustments, sub stantially as described. t

a. In a device of he kind described, the combination with a fiat metallic sheath 2 having open ends and longitudinal, slots 4- and 5 extending from its open ends at the opposite edges of said sheath, coupling rods 14 having hooked ends 15 engageable with Witnesses .lALIE Henri, l. l). MERCHANT. 

